Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for overgrew
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Drop waists of the Art Deco era also proliferated at Chanel, Marni, and Rabanne.—
Anna Cafolla,
Vogue,
29 Mar. 2026 -
For years, the industry has proliferated across the country after the 2018 Farm Bill legalized industrial hemp.—
Jack Harvel,
Kansas City Star,
26 Mar. 2026
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Plagued by cold weather, the operation never flourished and in 1926, the sugar company pulled out.—
Miami Herald Archives,
Miami Herald,
5 Apr. 2026
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But a new series of fossils found at a site in China includes examples of groups that flourished in the Cambrian living side by side with a few Ediacaran species.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
2 Apr. 2026
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During periods of high sea levels, salt water flooded into the basin between North and South America and formed a shallow sea where algae thrived.—
Jeffrey Marlow,
New Yorker,
5 Apr. 2026
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The anecdote comes off less like an afterschool special and more like a reflection on the strange in-between zones where Hornsby has always thrived.—
Sam Sodomsky,
Pitchfork,
3 Apr. 2026
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His parents prospered, opening a fur shop called Paris-New York and moving to the tony Sixteenth Arrondissement.—
Lauren Collins,
New Yorker,
1 Apr. 2026
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Wool producers prospered on buoyant world prices.—
Britannica Editors,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
19 Mar. 2026
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